It is the third feature film of Guillaume Canet. You may remember him as an actor in the famous French movie Jeux d’Enfants (Love Me If You Dare) (2003), he performed with Marion Cotillard there; or from the movie Joyeux Noël (2005). Les Petits Mouchoirs is also a personal movie of Canet where he gathered around his close friends and gave them roles. There are famous French actors among them, such as François Cluzet, Gilles Lellouche, Jean Dujardin, Oscar awarded Marion Cotillard and Benoît Magimel.

In the movie, a ten or so tightly-knit friends are passing through a period that they have never experienced upon a bad accident that one of their friends had. It is about their unwillingness to see the truth and hiding behind the white lies. They, instead, will choose to believe that their friend’s situation is alright and decide to leave to a pre-planned vacation that they have each year altogether. During this holiday, the secrets about each character will be revealed and as audience, we will witness to their confessions to each other.

The acting that impressed me the most was of Gilles Lellouche. We unfortunately don’t see Oscar awarded Jean Dujardin much in the movie due to his character, however Lellouche knows how to show off himself in many other well-known French actors. I saw him previously in Paris (2008) and found him outstanding there too.

Les Petits Mouchoirs is not one of the top French movies that you will watch, but definitely one of the most intense ones. Canet knows how to focus on each individual character and shows us some peak moments of them where they confess their personal problems to each other, or even to themselves. The fact that they are lost in your own ego will come out to the surface at the end of the film. The concepts and limits of friendship and honesty are explored over the characters during the film. How much we remember each other in difficult times and how much we understand each other are the questions of the movie. Though some drama is awaiting our characters, I should add that there are very funny moments that give you good laugh.